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Biographical
Note

Chronological
Timeline

Rudolph
Martin Evans

1890
born

1936 Special assistant to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture

1938 Administrator of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration

1942 Governor of the Federal Reserve System

1954 Ended term as governor of Federal Reserve System

1956 Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate from Iowa

1956 died

Scope
and Contents

This
collections consists of texts for speeches, reports, press releases, appointment
books, correspondence, albums of photographs, and scrapbooks of newspaper
clippings. The scrapbooks have been removed from the sequence of item numbers
and moved to the end of the collection.

Stevenson,
Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900 -- 1965. Letter to [R.M. Evans]. On verso is
an ALS from Evans to Stevenson concerning the cut in farm prices, the importance
of a Democratic victory in 1956, and requesting Evans' support at the convention.
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Box
List

Box
1

Item
Number: Description

10:
U. S. Department of Agriculture. "On the set of 'Farmers and Defense.'"
USDA Studio, August 4, 1941. Book of Photographs

12:
Unidentified book of photographs. Photographs include one of Henry Wallace
and Franklin D. Roosevelt and many autographed photos addressed to Evans,
apparently while he was Administrator of the AAA.

13: Unidentified book of photographs. Photographs include Henry Wallace,
Franklin D. Roosevelt, and many others. Apparently compiled while Evans was
administrator of the AAA.

14: Unidentified book of photographs. Apparently
U.S.D.A. photographs in connection with the early war effort of the United
States.

Box
2

20:
R.M. Evans. Articles and statements. 1943 -- 1953

21: J.L. Boatman. Letter to Evans. December 5, 1934

22:
James W. Hook. Carbon of letter to Mr. George H. Houston, mentioning Evans
and also opposing the farm policies of Henry Wallace. 27 November 1934

47:
Claude R. Wickard. Evans to continue to serve as member of the Board of Directors
of the Farmers' Home Corporation. 8 February 1941

48:
Pages from the diary of a Ministry of Food Observer. 1941

49:
Claude R. Wickard, Authorization for Evans to travel to England, France, Spain,
and Portugal to obtain information about food problems from the Food Ministry
and of the unoccupied countries of Europe. 30 July 1941

61:
Agricultural Liaison Officer. Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. To Evans
thanking him for a tin of tobacco. 28 April 1942

62:
R. M. Evans and Capt. Cleveland Fyfe. Exchange of letters generally supporting
agricultural cooperation between England and the United States after the war.
19 May 1942

63:
R. M. Evans. Address: the future of agriculture in a world of peace. Grinnell,
Iowa. 20 June 1942

64:
Franklin D. Roosevelt. Appointment of Evans as a member of the interdepartmental
committee to consider cases of subversive activity among Federal employees.
5 February 1943. Copy of letter, original in presidential letter

collection.

65:
R. M. Evans. Letter of acceptance by Evans to the Interdepartmental Committee
and the report of a conversation Attorney-General Biddle. 8 February 1943

66:
Interdepartmental Committee. Material dealing with the functioning of this
committee. February 1943

67:
Department of State. Letter authorizing Evans as a delegate to the United
Nations Conference on Food and Agriculture. 8 May 1943

94:
Censorship Bermuda. Stamped envelope issued by Pan Americans Airways Company
for use with censoring material of persons entering the United Kingdom. Presumed
this was in connection with his trip to England before the U. S. entered World
War II.

95:
United Nations Conference on Food and Agriculture. Officers of the conference,
members of the delegations, officers of the secretariat.
May -- June, 1943

96:
R. M. Evans. Probably a note to himself of persons to visit, if he should
make another trip as Governor of the Federal Reserve System. Undated

178: R.M. Evans. "The Perpetual Farm Problem." (An abstract
of an address to be delivered by R. M. Evans, Member, Board of Governors Federal
Reserve System, at the meeting of the Westcentral Cooperative Grain Company
at Omaha, Nebraska, on October 18, 1948.)